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Let Vancouver’s Urban Forest be Fungal! : Celebrating the role of decomposition, soils, and fungi in urban streetscapes Bellis, Elliot

Abstract

Fungi play a critical role in the health of a forest ecosystem by maintaining soil health through successional decomposition. While the public has proven a curiosity about fungi, current municipal design and management of our urban forests neglect to celebrate their importance. This project proposes a neighbourhood-scale strategy, with Vancouver as a global leader, to design and manage streetscapes for fungi by updating operational practices in the boulevard, facilitating engagement with the public, and de-paving a street segment. The project aims to connect people with fungal processes and to improve conditions to sustain a healthy urban forest by celebrating ecological relationships of fungal decomposition.

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Title
Let Vancouver’s Urban Forest be Fungal! : Celebrating the role of decomposition, soils, and fungi in urban streetscapes
Creator
Bellis, Elliot
Date Issued
2025-04-28
Description
Fungi play a critical role in the health of a forest ecosystem by maintaining soil health through successional decomposition. While the public has proven a curiosity about fungi, current municipal design and management of our urban forests neglect to celebrate their importance. This project proposes a neighbourhood-scale strategy, with Vancouver as a global leader, to design and manage streetscapes for fungi by updating operational practices in the boulevard, facilitating engagement with the public, and de-paving a street segment. The project aims to connect people with fungal processes and to improve conditions to sustain a healthy urban forest by celebrating ecological relationships of fungal decomposition.
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LARC 598
Date Available
2025-04-30
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0448665
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90905
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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